Maksym Prokopenko

Maksym Serhiyovych Prokopenko (Максим Сергійович Прокопенко; born March 23, 1984, in Vilshanka, Kirovohrad Oblast) is a Ukrainian-born Azerbaijani sprint canoer who has competed since 2002.

Maksym Prokopenko
Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
World Championships
Silver medal – second place2009 DartmouthC-2 1000 m
Silver medal – second place2010 PoznańC-2 500 m
Silver medal – second place2011 SzegedC-2 500 m
Silver medal – second place2011 SzegedC-2 1000 m
Silver medal – second place2011 SzegedC-1 4 x 200 m
Bronze medal – third place2006 SzegedC-2 1000 m
Bronze medal – third place2009 DartmouthC-2 500 m
European Championships
Gold medal – first place2010 TrasonaC-2 1000 m
Silver medal – second place2011 BelgradeC-2 500 m

Competing for Ukraine, Prokopenko was the Canadian canoe C-1 500 m silver medallist at the 2002 Junior European Championships in Zagreb. He won a bronze medal in the C-2 1000 m event at the 2006 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Szeged.

Competing in two Summer Olympics also for Ukraine, Prokopenko earned his best finish of eighth in the C-2 500 m event at Beijing in 2008.

Prokopenko moved to Azerbaijan after the 2008 Summer Olympics and won two medals for his new nation at the 2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, with a silver in the C-2 1000 m and a bronze in the C-2 500 m events. He also won a silver in the C-2 500 m event at the 2010 championships.

He and teammate Serhiy Bezuhliy finished fourth for Azerbaijan in the men's C-2 1000 m at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

References
  • Canoe09.ca profile at the Wayback Machine (archived October 8, 2011)
  • ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-01-05)
  • ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-11-09)
  • Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Maksym Prokopenko". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.


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